Faculty Position

Professor of Agricultural and Resource Economics
College of Agricultural and Environmental Engineering

Research

• Aspects of livestock development in LDCs, including supply, demand, international trade, policy, agricultural research and technical change, with an emphasis on cattle
• Effect of international commodity agreements on domestic policy in exporting countries, especially as it engenders rent seeking, e.g., the effect of the International Coffee Agreement
• Chilean agriculture and economic development, most recently related to the causes and consequences of the Chilean fruit boom post 1974
• Food and nutrition policies in LDC's especially as they affect the growth of young children

Education

• B.A., University of Kansas
• Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology